Comparison between electrocardiographic and magnetocardiographic inverse solutions using the boundary element method

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 110-114

  Hren, R ^a,b,c,d   Zhang, X ^a   Stroink, G ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Ljubljana ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biomagnetism; Body surface potential mapping; Electrocardiography; Inverse solution; Localisation; Magnetic field mapping; Magnetocardiography; Non invasive functional localisation; Single moving dipole inverse solution

Indexed keywords

BIOMAGNETISM; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; INVERSE SOLUTIONS; LOCALISATION; MAGNETIC FIELD MAPPING; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOLUME CONDUCTOR;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DIPOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MODEL;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0030110872     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02520014     Document Type: Article

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